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habi

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About habi

I'm a generic geek and an ex-messenger with a PhD in ultrahigh resolution tomography. I love the outdoors, taking photos and much more than it's possible to pack into two sentences.

More links can be found on http://davidhaberthür.ch

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #48855908

    OsmAnd is also available on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/osmand-maps-travel-navigate/id... CoMap also offers offline access to OpenStreetMap data: https://apps.apple.com/ch/a…

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    Comment #48831204

    > However I ran into two things that have no formal tags: You can use https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like on OpenStreetMap. Many of the used tags are simply "in u…

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    Comment #48830039

    There are many apps for editing OSM on iOS: https://osm-apps.org/?platforms=iOS https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map !! also has some kind of 'quests' built in, and the Stree…

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    Comment #48814172

    > I found out that there is a cap A cap for downloading rendered tiles from osm.org? That exists, but is quite generous. Other (free) options are https://openfreemap.org/ or https:…

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    Comment #48683555

    Very nitpick, but you might need to ask for exemption by the OpenStreetMap foundation for using such a name: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_Policy#4._Special_u...

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    Comment #48514732

    Looking good and fun. As an avid OpenStreetMap contributor I'm a bit bummed that you're calling this "Google Maps and Need for Speed".

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    Comment #47552732

    Also they don't show the necessary OpenStreetMap attribution anywhere...

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    Comment #47495417

    > And certainly the situation for FOSS public-transit navigation is still quite poor. https://transitous.org/ ( https://github.com/public-transport/transitous ) works quite well.

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    Comment #46792508

    The data can be downloaded here: https://planet.osm.org/ Here's a list of OSM data users: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_servic...

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    Comment #45951228

    In addition I don’t see the necessary attribution to OSM (on my iPhone 12 mini)

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    Comment #45632654

    > However, even ALPR doesn't show any devices for me I've panned the map over several parts of the US, and see many ALPRs mapped in OpenStreetMap. You can also use the 'Wizard' of …

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    Comment #45619862

    The search directly on osm.org is optimzied for address things. For a "complete" search in the OpenStreetMap-data I suggest [Overpass Turbo]( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ov…

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    Comment #45398008

    Metal objects don’t change that much due to the radiation.

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    Comment #45397995

    That is possible, especially for very high resolution scans and dense materials. I work with (other) desktop microCT scanners and the longest scan we did took longer than 40 hours.…

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    Comment #45146990

    Sure, I just (honestly) wondered about trademarks.

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    Comment #45142688

    https://apertus.org/ exists since 15 years, interesting choice of name.

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    Comment #44998068

    It seems to me that these are two MagicEarth “owners” - Magic Lane for the navigation app which traces back to 1992: https://www.magiclane.com/web/about - Halliburton for something…

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    Comment #44988765

    > OpenStreetMap is still really hard to use and gives bad directions. https://www.magicearth.com/ works well for car navigation with OSM data, and https://cycle.travel/ is the best…

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    Comment #44458772

    > OpenStreetMap doesn't even seem interested in things like "this street is closed next week Tuesday" OpenStreetMap data consumers can have much longer update cycles than "next wee…

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    Comment #44095086

    As an avid mapper (and liking to go on dinner-dates with my wife) I absolutely love this. Very slick and quick search, congratulations! Do you also parse the `opening_hours` tag to…

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    Comment #44070373

    https://instapaper.com/ , I happily pay them 60$ a year for good search and automatic sending of articles to read to my Kindle, which makes it possible to have no other electronics…

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    Comment #44026610

    > low energy, high resolution portable X-ray systems in all sorts of trades for NDT weld inspections > low energy home medical X-ray systems The low energy you desire might not be …

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    Comment #43956655

    > And I don't know about OSM's techniques, Here's the OSM Wiki page on 'disputed territories': https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputed_territories The official document from t…

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    Comment #43842337

    > I aim to launch my own GPS satellite to bypass Google’s predatory API calls. That might be a bit more costly than calling any API :) And launching own GPS satellites has no conne…

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    Comment #43842094

    Theoretically yes. But no person ever is going to look at all the tiles (on the highest zoom levels) in the sea, so they are not rendered by default, and only on demand.